The Origin of Minus-end Directionality and Mechanochemistry of Ncd Motors

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Jana, Biman ^a   Hyeon, Changbong ^b   Onuchic, José N ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; PROTEINS;

BINDING AFFINITIES; COILED COIL; CYTOSKELETAL FILAMENTS; KINESINS; LIGAND CHEMISTRY; LIGAND INTERACTIONS; MECHANO-CHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTORS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS;

CONFORMATIONS;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN 1; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTEIN NCD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MICROTUBULE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870700756     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002783     Document Type: Article

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